Neurobiological roots of language in primate audition: Common computational properties

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 142-150

  Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^a,b   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^c   Small, Steven L ^d   Rauschecker, Josef P ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory objects; Dual pathways; Language; Nonhuman primate model; Sequence processing

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MAMMALS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

AUDITORY OBJECTS; COMPUTATIONAL PROPERTIES; DISCOURSE PROCESSING; DUAL PATHWAYS; HIGHER-LEVEL LANGUAGES; HIGHER-ORDER LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE; NON-HUMAN PRIMATE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; DORSAL ROOT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAMMAR; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHONEME; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; VENTRAL ROOT; ANIMAL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84933677017     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.12.008     Document Type: Review

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